Royal Navy Sandown Class Minehunter HMS Pembroke pictured sailing from HMNB Clyde in Western Scotland, when in commission. The Class was originally named the Single Role Minehunter and was planned to complement the preceding Hunt class’s capabilities and be cheaper to build. Sandown MCMVs were highly manoeuvrable vessels and were considered to be the best Minehunters active in the world.

 

 

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The Royal Navy wants three new-build mine hunting motherships. It has emerged that the RN plans to acquire up to three ‘survivable, non-complex warships’ designed from the outset to be motherships for autonomous mine-hunting boats.

 

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The Italian navy aircraft carrier ITS Cavour (CVH 550), front, the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) and the French navy aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle (R 91), conduct operations in the Gulf of Oman, 2014.

 

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July 1945: Guam, the Mariana Islands – USS George (DE 697) and USS Tillman (DD 641) are up on blocks in sectional floating drydock USS ABSD-6 while at the Fleet Anchorage prior to heading for Okinawa.

 

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EAST CHINA SEA (Jan. 26, 2012) A landing craft air cushion (LCAC) departs the well deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6).

 

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HMS Kent launched 1998, outboard, being prepared for refit in HMNB Devonport, and HMS Westminster, launched 1992, awaiting formal decommissioning and scrapping

 

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Italian PPA Raimondo Montecuccoli on her 6 month global tour to the Indo-Pacific region, arrived at Pearl Harbour 23rd June.

 

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